Dispensing appliance



H. H. HAYWOOD.- DISPENSING APPUAICE. Armcmon min Aumzo. mm

Patenmd Jan. 18, 1921.

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HARRY H. HAYWOOD, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE AMERL CANPAPER GOODS COMPANY, OF KENSINGTON, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF NEWJERSEY.

DISPENSING APPLIANCE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J an. 18, 1921.

Application filed August 20, 1919. Serial No. 318,656.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY H. HAYWOOD, a citizen of the United States,residing-at New Britain, in the county of Hartford and State ofConnecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inDispensing Appliances, of which the following is a specification. I

This invention relates to a dispensing appliance. I employ this title asa matter of convenience and for the further fact that the device hasbeen found especially efficient for receiving and dispensing variouskinds of articles although it is primarily intended to receive anddeliver drinking cups. In the drawings accompanging and forming part ofthe present speci cation I have shown in detail one of the several formsof embodiment of the invention which to enablethose skilled in the artto practise the invention, will be set forth fully in the followingdescription. Clearly I do not restrict myself to this'disclosure; I maydepart therefrom in several particulars within the scope of theinvention defined by the claims following said description. As will beobvious I-have several motives in view. Among them is the provision ofan article of this character which is susceptible of inexpensiveproduction, which may be easily mounted for use, which is strong andpracticable, and by which the proper delivery or dispensing of thearticles may be insured. There are other equally important pointsinvolved in the invention which'will, with the foregoing, be fullybrought out in said description.

. Referring to said drawings:

Figure 1 is a top plan view of a dispensing appliance involving theinvention and illustrating a way of using the same.

Fig. 2 is a side and Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the elements shownin Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a bottom plan view of the package support with the packagetherein.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the appli- I being on a much smallerscale than the other two.

The appliance includes in its organization two main elements which aredesirably re movably associated as I will hereinafter explain. One ofthese elements, which constitutes a frame or part such as a bottlecontaining water for illustration, and the other or the secondary membersustains the cups or their equivalents which are to be dispensed. Itwill of course be clear that I employ these designations main andsecondary more or less for convenience in distinguishing and identifyingthe parts.

A water cooler with body Q'and faucet 3 is surmounted by bottle4.

The frame or main member comprises a clip portion which is of circularform although not necessarily a fullcircle. As a matter of fact I preferthat it be less than a full circle and more than a half one, it beingordinarily about three quarters of a circle. This leaves a mouth 7through which may be passed the upper portion of the body ofthe bottle 4at which time the clip portion snugly embraces the bottle. This clipp0rtion may be of any suitable material such as heavy wire, this beingsufficiently resilient to enable the clip portlon to be opened out forconnection with the bottle. In fact I prefer. that this frame or mainmember 5 be all of such heavy wire. From what might be considered as therear ends of the clip portion 6, the arms find 9 rise, these arms asshown being parallel with each other.

c From the upper ends of the arms the con- 12, for strength and toconstitute a spring,

and one of them being continued forwardly as at 13, the forwardcontinuation terminating in a downwardly-extending shank 141 having ahook 15 at its free end, which I might note at this point presents aconvenient support for the auxiliary member of the dispenser. The clipportion 6 snugly embraces the bottle 4 near the upper end thereof, thearms 8 and 9 engaging firmly against the back of the bottle, {and thebranches, coil 12, and continuation 13 resting substantially against thetop of the bottle or at least what is shown as the top because thebottle is really reverted. The shank 14 fits against the front of thebottle. The main member or frame 5 is therefore held firmly and-properlyto the bottle; and

against accidental withdrawal under ordinary circumstances yet it canwhen necessary be freely taken or slipped from place.

The auxiliary or packagesupporting member includes in its structure thetwo side pieces 17 and 18 in parallelism with each other and above whichare disposed the side pieces 19 and 20. The side pieces 17 and 19cooperate to constitute one side of the package-supporting member, theother side being presented by the similarly superposed and parallel sidepieces 18 and 20. From the rear ends of the side pieces 17 and 18 extendlaterally and inwardly, the branches 21 and 22 which are coaxial theirinner ends as shown being spaced apart. From these inner ends the arms23 and 2'1, parallel with each other, depend and terminate in downwardlyand forwardly extending angularlywlisposed spring fingers 25 and 26which diverge forwardly and upon which the package 16 rests as I willlater explain. These fingers 25 and 26 will, it is clear, be resilientor springy. At the front of the member 15 are approximately bowed orroughly-speaking U-shaped portions 27 and 28 the branches of which areunited with the front ends of the respective side pieces 17, 19, 1S andrespectively. From the rear ends of the upper side pieces 19 and 20, thebranches 29 and 30 coaxial with each other extend and are furnished witha loop 31 adapted to removably engage the hook 15' which I have alreadymentioned. The auXi iary member 15' is practically therefore in the formof a skeleton basket into which the package 16 is slipped from above orthrough the upper open end of the auxiliary support. The bottom of thepackage rests upon the fingers and 26, the front ends of which extendslightly beyond the package. the sides of the package engaging againstthe side pieces 17, 19, 18 and 20, its front against the portions 27 and28 and its back against the poitions 21, 22, 23, 24:, and 29 and thepackage being thus properly held while cups are being dispenedtherefrom. In fact the members 15 and 16 jointly rest against the bodyof the bottle 1, the parts in question being suspended from the mainmember 5.

The package has a carton or box as 32 which is of pasteboard or someother usual substance. Its bottom slopes forwardly and downwardly toconform to and to rest on the resilient fingers. The front edge of thecarton or box bottom is spaced from or free of the front wall of thebox. In its forward portion is a finger slot 33 open at its front sideand which registers with but is somewhat wider than the slot 8 1 in thelower edge portion of the front wall of the box and which receivesusually the thumb of the hand. The cups 35 are of the flat kind and arein a stack or pile within the box or carton 32, the lowcst lat cup ofthc superimposed series partly re ting on and inclined in the box withits front closed end against the front of the box.

It is a simple matter to remove the lowcst cup of the stack. To do thisthe prospective user of the lowermost cup pulls the same forward untilit is entirely free of the box. Of course the second cup of the stackwill then drop and be sustained partly by thc bottom of the box, thestack haying settled on the withdrawal of the lowest cup.

It will be remembered that l have dcscribed the front wall of the carton252 as resting upon the forward ends of the spring fingers 25 and 26which as a matter of fact extend slightly beyond said forward wall asshown best in Fig. (l. The two lingers 25 and 26 sustain the stack ofcups. and the front wall rests on said spring fingers, this front wallhaving of course. a ccrt'ain amount of resiliency. The bottom inclinedwall of the carton or box has a slot Ilil in which a finger or thumb maybe introduced.

It will be assumed that as shown in Fig. ii.

a finger has been placed against the lowcrmost cup of the stack and thatsaid lowermost cup is drawn forward in the direction of the arrow insaid view. On such motion the lowermost cup will, relatively more thcfingers 25 and 26 away from the lower cdgc of the front wall 32, adistance snfiicicnt: to permit the slipping forward of the lowermost cupand only this. the second cup of the stack beiilg effectually preventedfrom moving forwardly on the pull. lVhcn. hoiw ever, the lowermost cupis fully withdrmvn. the stack can settle a. distance sul'iicient topermit what was the second lt'iwermost cup to rest on the forwardportions of the two spring fingers 25 and 26.

While two yieldable fingers as 25 and 26 which support the package ofdrinking cups, is a desirable construction. it may not always benecessary to employ this number. The fingers as I have set forth. extendforwardly beyond the front of the package 16 and necessarily forwardlybeyond the rear plane of the front of the skeleton member 15. Thesefingers are at opposite sidcs of a slot as in the bottom of the packagc16 in view of which it is utterly 'impossiblc for a user to pull fromthe package simultaneously two cups. The bottom of thc carton or box 32,as l have explained, is free at its forward edge of the front wall ofthe carton so that: the weight of thc carton resting on a finger orfingers as $25 and 2.6 will effectually and positively prcvent a userfrom withdrawing from the carton more than one cup at a time.

What I claim is:

1. A drinking-cup paclmge-holder conr prising a skeleton cup-receivingbody ha ing means by which it may be supported.

the bottom of the body having a forwardlyextending finger spaced fromthe planes of the sides of the body, the front end of the fingerextending forwardly beyond the plane of the rear surface of the front ofthe bod 2. A drinking-cup ackage-holder comprising a skeleton b0 yhaving means by which it may be supported, the bottom of the body havingforwardly extending fingers spaced from each other and spaced from theplanes of the sides of the body, the front ends of the fingers extendinforwardly beyond the plane of the rear ace of the front of the body,combined with a package of superimposed paper drinking cups, the packagebeing slotted in its bottom and front walls, the bottom wall resting onsaid fin ers which are situated at opposite sides 0 the slot, saidbottom wall being free of the front end of the package. 3. Adrinking-cup package-holder coInprising a skeleton cup-receiving body,hav ing means by which it may be supported, the bottom of the bodyhaving forwardly-diverging fingers spaced from the planes of the sidesof the body, the front ends of the fingers extending forwardly beyondthe plalne of the rear surface of the front of the bi) y.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

HARRY H. HAYWOOD. Witnesses:

FRANK W. LOUGHERY, THOMAS J. DAVIS.

